🔗 Share this article Panel of Jurors in Prominent Down Under Homicide Trial Visits Shoreline At Which Deceased Was Discovered The remains of Toyah Cordingley were found on a remote beach in Far North Queensland back in 2018. Jurors involved in a widely publicized Queensland murder trial have traveled to the remote shore where the victim was located. The 24-year-old victim was repeatedly stabbed with a bladed weapon and placed in a shallow grave with minimal chance of survival, the jury has been told. The remains were discovered by her father the following day on Wangetti Beach – a section of coastline between the tourist centres of Cairns and Port Douglas. The accused, 41, denies killing Ms Cordingley on a Sunday afternoon in October 2018 in Far North Queensland. Jury Visit to Crime Scene The jury of 10 men and two women plus several back-up jurors attended the beach along with the presiding officer and legal counsel on Monday morning in Queensland. In a nod to the tropical conditions and temperatures above 30C, Justice Lincoln Crowley opted for a casual top, sport shorts and sneakers rather than traditional court attire. Both the prosecuting and defense attorneys chose polo shirts, bottoms and headwear. Location Details The jurors were led around three-quarters of a mile north up the sand to see where Ms Cordingley's body were discovered. Earlier, as they traveled to the site, several red and white cones showed where the victim's car had been left. The trip was intended to help the panel become acquainted with important sites in the trial and no testimony was presented. Context of the Trial Last week, the Cairns Supreme Court was informed that the following day Ms Cordingley's body were found, Mr Singh departed from Australia to India – leaving behind his spouse, family and parents. He was not heard from until he was apprehended four years later, the state said. Justice Lincoln Crowley with legal representatives and other court officials at Wangetti Beach. Prosecution Argument It is claimed that the defendant, who was working as a nurse in the town of Innisfail, south of Cairns, had a confrontation with Ms Cordingley. The pharmacy worker was found wearing a swimwear, with all her other clothes and belongings absent. Those items were removed by the killer to conceal evidence, the prosecution contend. Her dog, Indie, which Ms Cordingley had brought along for a stroll, was found tied up to a tree hidden in bushland about 30 metres from the grave. No murder weapon was ever recovered, and no eyewitnesses have been identified. But the prosecution says the crown's case – though circumstantial – was made up of findings that pointed to Mr Singh "and eliminated others." This will involve testimony that genetic material recovered from a stick at the location was 3.8 billion times more probable to have originated from Mr Singh than a random member of the population. The court has previously been told evidence suggesting that Ms Cordingley's mobile device departed the scene after the killing – and that its movements matched those of a vehicle belonging to the defendant. Mr Singh's sudden departure from Australia also suggested his guilt, the prosecution has argued. Defence Position "As the police were discovering Toyah's remains, he was organizing... a rushed one way trip back to India," Mr Crane said last week as he opened his case. The defence is yet to provided testimony, but in his opening address, Mr Singh's barrister the lawyer described his defendant as a "calm" and "compassionate" man, who was in the "wrong place at the unfortunate moment." He also foreshadowed testimony to come subsequently that, after his apprehension, Mr Singh told an undercover officer he had witnessed two masked men assault Ms Cordingley and then had run away in terror – something he said was his "gravest error." The defense attorney has also said he will testify about other people "identified and unidentified" who should come under suspicion. Additional Evidence Ms Cordingley's boyfriend at the time, the witness, whom authorities excluded as a possible suspect, was among those who gave evidence previously. The court heard he was an initial person of interest – and that he had faced questions from Ms Cordingley's parent about whether he was implicated in his girlfriend's vanishing, prior to her remains were discovered. Photographs depicting the witness on a walk with a friend on the date Ms Cordingley went missing have been shown to the court, with an expert saying he was confident the photos were genuine and had not been doctored in any way. The trial will resume to the more conventional setting of the courtroom on the next day.